Rev 1: 9-18; 5: 11-13; 7: 9-17; 21: 1-6, 23-27; 22: 1-11. POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the … [Read more...]
Rein In Trends In Worship Music That Go Too Far
January 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
Adapted from an article by Link Hudson Music has always been an important part of Hebrew and Christian worship God intended music to be a part of corporate worship and of private meditation during the week. Approximately AD 200, the church leader Tertullian wrote in his Apology, concerning their agape (love feast): “Each is asked to stand up and sing, as he can, a hymn to God, either one from the Holy Scriptures or one of his own composing.†Paul gave instructions about singing, Ephesians … [Read more...]
Communicate With Skits And Role-plays
January 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]
Nine Freedoms Of Churches To Multiply
January 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]
Wise Church Planters Are Like Temporary Scaffolding
January 29, 2012 by 1 Comment
POY! SKIT GUIDELINES: In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not necessary to employ costumes … [Read more...]
Guidelines For Music In Worship
January 28, 2012 by 1 Comment
 How to know what kind of music to select As a great grandfather, I am pained by the opposition of some fellow elders to contemporary worship music. Personally, I can hardly stand some of it either, and I love hymns of my generation; however, such nostalgia of a disappearing epoch has a fatal focus that has emptied thousands of churches in Europe and America. Many devout Christians now simply cannot tolerate the older style of music and the dogmatic attitudes that sometimes go with it. Some … [Read more...]
Children And Adults Take Part Together In Worship And Discussions By Acting Out Stories
January 28, 2012 by 1 Comment
Brief weekly dramatizations and role-plays will prove highly edifying, if you do the following: 1.  Keep dramas very short and simple, from a few seconds to a minute or two, and avoid elaborate props. Let participants simply glance at their lines and speak in their own words. 2.  Let anyone who wants to take part do so; avoid making people be passive hearers only. Let tots too small to act out a part shout, cheer or boo at appropriate times. Their leader might say, “Let’s … [Read more...]
Hear God Speak from His Word: Encourage Discussion In Which All Believers’ Spiritual Gifts Are In Operation
January 28, 2012 by 1 Comment
This exercise can enable family or cell group members to help each other understand God's Word and put it into practice. Tell your group what to listen for, before reading a Bible passage. After reading, ask questions that encourage interactive discussion. This will enable exhorters to exhort, comforters to comfort, admonishers to correct, and prophets to speak a word from the Lord. Helpful questions to ask about a Bible passage: What is important about this for us? What does it … [Read more...]
Sin, That Willful, Wicked, Demonic Power
January 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
I'm never sure of any fact. I guess Confusion is my name.Men worship me in many forms, All gods and faiths are just the same. Some call me “cool†and “open mind.†I helped King Saul consult feeding your dog a natural dietdiets after pulomonary heart surgerydiet elevated intracranial pressurechip dietweight loss ncis a witch. Men can’t discern what’s false and true; Their view is blocked in my deep ditch. On a popular Christian talk show, a guest said that evil is … [Read more...]
To Do His Father’s Will, Jesus Lets The Serpent Inject Its Venom
January 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Matt. 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 18 POY! SKIT GUIDELINES In a small group, participants might simply read their lines, or glance at their lines to get the idea so they can speak in their own words. Most POY! skits require no practice in advance. Have any small children play a brief part. Most scripts have an optional part for children, listed last under Participants. Most scripts have a Narrator who should read the script beforehand to see how to keep moving the story along. It is not … [Read more...]